..Results provided evidence of marital stress generation among wives, and social support processes functioned as a mechanism of stress generation for wives. Results highlight the cyclical course of dysphoria and stress among wives...

The relationship between attachment cognitions and psychological adjustment in late adolescent women

..Specifically, some women may be prone to attachment fluctuations because of adverse earlier experiences, and women who show attachment fluctuations are similar to women with stably insecure attachments...

Predictors of the generation of episodic stress: a longitudinal study of late adolescent women